Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Rujuta Rao was born in 1989 in Goa, India. She completed her MFA in interdisciplinary art from Parsons School of Design, New York, in 2014, and her BFA in sculpture from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 2011. Rao's multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, book and sound art, alongside a parallel practice of conceptual and functional garments. Residencies and fellowships include the Center for Book Arts residency, USA; CCA Islands Travel Fellowship, Japan; Civita Institute Fellowship, Italy; The Rejoinders Residency, UK; ISSP Riga Residency, Latvia; Chennai Photo Biennale Residency Phase I, India; CONA Foundation Residency, India; and Rubus Discolor Project Residency, USA. Rao’s work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions in the United States at The Kitchen, Printed Matter Inc., Anthology Film Archives, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Mana Contemporary, and Rubus Discolor Project, and in India at Experimenter Gallery, 1ShanthiRoad, Kolkata Centre for Creativity, Serendipity Arts Festival, and Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology. Rao’s work was included in the State of Fashion Biennale 2024 in Arnhem, NL. Rao’s work has been featured in Vogue India, Elle India, Voice of Fashion, Platform Magazine, The Telegraph (India), Mint, and in publications by Museum of Art and Photography and Experimenter Gallery. In 2024, Rao will be participating in the Brooklyn Art Book Fair, BookSmart at Art on Paper Fair and Asia Art Archive in America’s 2024 Leadership Camp in New York. Rao lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey.